VOL III, Issue 28, November 23-29, 2016 | News, Analysis, Arts and Entertainment NOB HILL YESTERDAY. TODAY. TOMORROW. Pages 12-13 Keshet Announces Final 'Nutcracker on the Rocks' Run, p18 2 • November 23-29, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS WEEKLY ABQ FREE PRESS WEEKLY • November 23-29, 2016 • 3 www.freeabq.com Editor: [email protected] News: [email protected] Arts: [email protected] On Twitter: @FreeABQ On Facebook: facebook.com/abqfreepress ABQ FREE PRESS WEEKLY Editor Dan Vukelich (505) 345-4080 ext. 800 General Manager, Sales Director Sarah Bonneau (505) 345-4080 ext. 810 TABLE OF CONTENTS Associate Editor, News Dennis Domrzalski (505) 306-3260 APD Trying to Run Out the Clock - pg 7 News Take Back the Co-Op Associate Editor, Arts Pulp News - pg 8 Jyllian Roach (505) 345-4080 ext. 818 Federal Art Funding The Future of Nob Hill - pg 8, 12 & 13 Circulation Manager Steve Cabiedes (505) 345-4080 ext. 815 Tank of Gas: Cochiti Area - pg 10 Art Director Arts & Food Fight: Mannies vs. Frontier - pg 16 Archie Archuleta Goodbye, Nutcracker - pg 18 Designer/Illustrator Entertainment Film Focus - pg 20 Rob M "Fantastic Beasts" Review Photography Quinn Mander Q & A - pg 22 Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan "Beautifully Broken" Review Antonio Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm Contributors this issue Cartoons - pg 15 Moriah Carty, Erika Eddy, Steve "Mo" Features Callboard - pg 19 Fye, Gary Glasgow, Ariane Jarocki, Calendar - pg 21 Dan Klein, Ashley Kurtz, David Lynch, Games - pg 23 Sara MacNeil, Sayrah Namasté, Robert Reich, Tom Tomorrow, Christa Valdez, Lex Voytek Letters - pg 4 & 5 Copy Editors Columns Dan Klein - pg 9 Wendy Fox Dial, Jim Wagner Sayrah Namasté Advertising Account Executive Robert Reich - pg 15 Cara Tolino (505) 345-4080 ext. 810 Sales Department (505) 345-4080 ext. 810 Office Administrator Melissa Wood (505) 345-4080 ext. 817 Published weekly by: Great Noggins LLC P.O. Box 6070 Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 Publishers Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich Cover: Courtesy of the ABQ Museum of Art and History Photo Archive Where to find our paper? List of more than 400 locations at freeabq.com Corrections policy: It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors at the email addresses on this page. 4 • November 23-29, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS WEEKLY LETTERS That responsibility rests solely with the Public Education Commission, an elected body of ten members from around the state. While we are administratively attached to PED, we are an independent body and serve as the successor to the old New Mexico Board of Education. It is an uncomfortable situation as we hae not been gien our own staff. The Legislature created the Charter School Division within PED to be our staff. hat sounded good in the legislation, but in reality it works poorly, as we hae no say in the staff- ing or the assignments or individuals on that staff. er the last year and a half, the relationship has become more and more contentious and has To the Editor: does getting Republican governors Hey, maybe Darwin should have been hurting the schools as well as the elected, perhaps we wouldn’t be at the been in retail. commission. After the election, my wife and I bottom of every ‘good’ list and the top could no longer justify having a sub- – Norm Segel The PEC does not have a budget al- of every ‘bad.’ scription to the Albuquerque Journal. though 2 percent of [certain] funding “In the digital age where news from is withheld from each school, district So, we cancelled it. Below is my letter To the Editor: to their management saying why. I multiple sources is available on the or state chartered, to pay for services am submitting it to ABQ Free Press internet and our digital devices, why This is regarding the column by to the schools. PED has control of Weekly as a letter to the editor. I think go out of your way to alienate your ayrah amaste about a film about those funds rather than the PEC. a lot of other people feel the same way readers fter all, ew exico is – for Iraqi refugees [Nov. 9-15 issue]. We have no idea what they are used we do. the most part – a blue’ state. I found a better way to change for we hae tried to find out and we have no control over them. The “I QUIT! You win! We can’t take it “So, for us it is ‘adios’ to your biased minds about the [2003] Iraq War ce of the tate uditor is currently anymore so we canceled our subscrip- paper.” was to just give them facts about the attempting to audit that 2 percent. tion this morning. –Carl Weik neoconservatives, since they pushed for it, and why militarily it would Since April, we have been trying, “My wife and I have decided we fail. This is especially true for those in unsuccessfully, to obtain a contract can no longer read the Albuquerque Editor’s Note: the military. with an attorney in Santa Fe who has ournal during breakfast and fight our ABQ Free Press welcomes readers’ worked with us in the past to facilitate way through the constant barrage of comments on the quality of the news The strategic objective was to our contract negotiations with renew- ‘right-wing’ propaganda. media in New Mexico, including redesign the Middle East and destroy the work by this newspaper, the TV Islam as a force. Neocon Douglas ing schools. PED has been denying “Before moving to Albuquerque, we stations, radio stations and other Feith suggested it in 2001. Condi the contract. They have no business lived in some very conservative states news outlets. Rice admitted this ten years ago. Joe in making that decision, as we are not such as Tennessee, Arizona and Idaho. Wilson told the American people that under their supervision or authority. Nowhere did we experience the total some weeks prior to the invasion. In My point in writing to you after bias in reporting constantly exhibited To the Editor: a biography, Colin Powell is quoted seeing the article on fie of our charter in your paper. I appreciated Dennis Domrzalski’s saying the same thing. schools, is that in my four years on “It is not just the opinion page, recent articles on the “Take Back the When the strategic objective is the commission in a district that which is totally dominated by the Co-op” situation at La Montañita unattainable, the war is lost before it is covers the largest part of Albuquer- right, but in local reporting right Co-op. I have shopped at the co-op started. Why do you think no military que, no one from any media outlet down to the business page. The pa- for years, traveling often from the far theorist supported it pposing a has contacted me for information tronizing tone is insulting. Give your North Valley to both the Nob Hill and war that can’t be won, whose strategic before writing or reporting on charter readers some credit! Rio Grande Boulevard locations. I schools. I find that insulting to . like the wide variety of items, both objectives can’t be realized, is not “You claim to take no position on I think that is also a disservice to the organic and non-organic foods, the cowardice, but insisting others fight the race for the presidency and then commission and our schools. helpful, friendly staffers and een the and die while you stay at home totally bombard the reader with an- long hours the co-op stays open. And, is cowardice. – Carmie Lynn Toulouse, public ti-Clinton rhetoric. Secretary Clinton I was grateful when the co-op opened – Gregory Ozimek education commissioner, has been scrutinized exhaustively and the location near Cottonwood Mall on District 3 has been cleared by multiple congres- the West Side. My experience is that sional committees and the FBI. Trump location has gotten more and more To the Editor: is a sexual predator. You honestly Editor’s note: popular with shoppers since open- I think the general public has a see no difference his is a perfect Ms. Toulouse refers to 10 pages ing, and it’s certainly convenient for misunderstanding concerning where example of false equivalency. in the Nov. 9-15 issue that contain those of us living in the many nearby the responsibility for state-chartered paid advertisements placed by “Printing multiple pictures of Susie communities. school actually rests. It is with five area charter schools he ad- Martinez reading to a second-grade onsequently, and for the first time, PED. While they control the formula vertisements were placed by the classroom is not going to convince I recently became a member of the which determines the “grades” and schools to meet an annual PED the people of New Mexico that she is co-op. I did this as an armation of can take oer the finances of a state requirement that they publish a a successful governor. However, it is support for the past and current man- school in fiscal trouble, they do not public report card on themselves unlikely that you will ever learn that agement. It’s smart that the co-op has approve or deny new charters or using PED-established criteria fact. If she would work as hard to im- evolved over the years in order to stay renew or refuse charter renewals or prove New Mexico’s economy as she relevant and to stay in business. close state-chartered schools.